Apple’s Hide-my-email service is only useful to people who don’t have their own domain-name for email. I assume most of here on HM have a vanity dot-com or dot-me that we just point to GMail (or maybe Office 365 if you lean that way) - all those services (not to mention self-hosted) allow us to set arbitrary, catch-all, and disposable addresses (even the perpetually un-cool O365 supports it now too).
I’ll never use Apple’s Hide-my-email service until they let us use it with our own domain-names. It’s my email mailbox and my dodgy account registration, not Apple’s.
I wouldn’t say it’s only useful for people without vanity domain names - it also adds a level anonymity should the user database get leaked (IE: it’ll be a random HME account that will look like every other, vs your specific domain name)
Also FWIW you can use it with custom domains - I use it with fastmail and have since day one (their version of it isn’t as tightly integrated as Apple but they offer this service as well). Hope this helps!
To confirm, you're saying that Apple will generate something like "randomString@yourDomainName.com"? If so, how can I set that up? I don't see any relevant settings on my phone's iCloud settings page.
I’ll never use Apple’s Hide-my-email service until they let us use it with our own domain-names. It’s my email mailbox and my dodgy account registration, not Apple’s.